Despite virtually no sleep for 3 nights and the effect of yesterday's spring Covid jab Sunday's good forecast saw me up soon after 5am, breakfasted, on the road and at GWH for the second day on the trot, this time at the much earlier hour of 05:50!!
CP and Kimberley arrived shortly afterwards and the next two hours were spent going through four moth traps. After so much social media commenting on poor trapping conditions and low numbers this spring, it was a real treat to end up with stats of 115/37, figures which I'm sure weren't expected by any of the three of us.
A few screaming Swifts, a Roe Deer and some early White Helleborines were the only other notable 'non-moths'.
Light Brocade was a new species and, although I didn't realise it, so was Marbled Brown which, sadly, I didn't pay enough attention to.
May Bugs, the odd wasps and the bug Harpocera thoracica were some of the bycatch.
It was interesting to see the most recent edition of Sterling and Parsons now has English names in prime position; some real tongue twisters amongst them!!
And a very brief visit to TH today saw this first Southern Marsh Orchid and the hoverfly Brachypalpoides lentus, something I've not seen for nearly six years!
